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+The party had just learned of Angelique’s experience from the night before. Cal-El searched the area and eventually found the place where they had taken her. The only tracks around were from one person. Just as before, Morgan and Marline left no footprints. When the only tracks present left, they trailed of a little ways and then stopped. No sign of how that person left.
+The morning was cold with a little sleet and snow falling. They broke out the winter weather gear and bundled up for a miserable day’s hike. The feeling was that they were walking up a gentle but steady incline. The took a break around noon, built a small fire to warm up a little and ate. While checking on Angelique, Symon asked if she thought they gave her something or took something from her. She felt they had removed blood. After a little rest, they picked up and moved on. The weather grew colder and changed over to a mixture of sleet and snow. Xor hunted while they moved north and got a couple of squirrels. Eryn tried her hand but only got one. They found a place to camp for the night, cleaned and cooked the squirrels with some of their other supplies and made a decent meal of it. Xor donated his tent to be used as a lean to and a barrier against the wind. They turned in with Angelique and Cal-El set up watch.
+During the watch, Cal-El spotted the glow of another campfire to their west, He woke Xor and showed the light to he and Angelique, then he and Xor took off towards it. As they got closer, Xor stayed back while Cal-El approached from the top of a ravine. Looking down, he spotted three goblin scouts dressed much like Duzzt. They were muttering something to themselves and were unhappy. They also kept looking over their shoulder to the north like they were watching for someone or something. Cal-El couldn’t understand what they were saying. He backed out, collected Xor, and headed back to camp.
+Cal-El explained to Angelique and Xor what he had seen, in his special way. They woke the rest and explained what they saw and decided to go have a chat. They moved to the top of the ravine where Cal-El had spied on them earlier. Eryn took up a flanking position and one with which to keep an eye on the northern path. Symon taught Xor how to say “Friend” in goblin. Xor, Cal-El, and Cassandra moved around to the opposite side of the camp and the walked in with their hands raise while Xor repeated “Friend” in goblin. The goblins grabbed their weapons and backed up, surprised to see them. Symon spoke from the rocks above and behind them telling them to drop their weapons as they were surrounded. They dropped their weapons and begged them not to kill them.
+Symon entered the camp and spoke to them, finding out they were scouts. There were at least three others with them, their leaders. They were out but due back anytime. They learned about a much larger group coming down from the north and that they were about two days behind them. They learned it was all commanded through Grish-ta-nak. Part of what they did was secure food to Grizzolo. Symon tried to convence them to quit and leave or to join us to fight them. They were terrified of either option as if they did either of those, their whole tribes would be killed. The Company eventually left, covered their tracks and headed back to their camp where they rested the remainder of the night while Eryn took the watch.
+At day break the ground and and everything in the area was covered in a lite snow. It was very pretty remarked Eryn. They ate and while they packed, Cal-El moved back to the ravine to see what had happened to the goblins. There were new footprints there and they headed off to the south. He returned to the rest and they set off north. They travelled till noon and took a break. That night they set up camp and Xor hunted a fat rabbit and they ate that with some of their supplies. The night passed without incident. They watched for fires in the distance but didn’t see anything.
+The weather had cleared a little but there was now at least a couple of inches of snow on the ground. It was windy and extremely cold. They ate, broke camp, and headed north. After a few hours, they spied something in the road. It was a grayish furry lump, with a little steam coming from it’s breath. Cal-El moved up the road slowly while Eryn moved out to the east and flanked him. As they got closer, Cal-El stomped once on the ground but nothing happened. He packed a snowball and threw it at the object. That got it’s attention. The winter wolf stood and faced him.
+At the same time, three bugbears and a bear charged out and down on Eryn. A couple of the hand axes thrown at her hit. Being one against 4, she went into full dodge and tumble mode. This allowed others to join and forced the enemy to separate and face multiple opponents. She fought a bugbear and bear while Xor and Cassandra worked on two bugbears. Angelique fired on the bear. Cal-El and Symon took on the winter wolf. After the first round, one of the bugbears on Xor was down and the wolf had taken a pounding from Cal-El. Another group of three bugbears and a bear charged out of the western woods. Symon stopped the bugbears with a web spell. Eryn, Xor, Cassandra, and Angelique finished off the eastern group and joined the fight on the bear wolf and western group. Pretty quickly they all finished them off. They skinned the wolf and searched the bugbears finding only a little coin. They were patched but no papers on them. They continued north.
+They reached the end of the day and set up another camp, a little more off the road. They set up as they had been. They found nothing while hunting, so it was rations or whatever they carried for supper. They turned in with Angelique and Cal-El on watch. About an hour into the rest, Cal-El spotted some torch light coming from the north. There was a lot of noise as a large group was moving south. Angelique doused the fire and they waited and watched. An army of patched bugbears came into view, hundreds of them passed. At the rear was a hobgoblin leader barking orders. They remained still and waited for tHem to pass. Afterward Angelique relit the fire and they settled in for the rest of the night.
+The next morning, the rest of the group learned of the passing of the bugbear army. They gathered their supplies, packed, and headed out to the north. They began reaching the summit of their climb and the ground leveled off. There was smoke coming from fires ahead. They moved forward and what they saw was a wall with a gate blocking the road. The firers were coming from the top of that. They could see bugbears, gnolls, and another hobgoblin. There was no way around the wall, the only way to get to the other side was to go through or over the wall.
+That is where it ended.
+Please start the recorder!
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